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"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."

"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."

"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
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"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention."


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"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
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